While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
The Nautilus Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nautilus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Amumu helps Nautilus perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus is paired with Amumu, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Amumu helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Amumu on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Amumu does a poor job of covering Nautilus during team fights.
There is no top companion for Nautilus that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Amumu is a terrible teammate for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 45.7%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Nautilus and Amumu that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Amumu teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Nautilus and Amumu together, you will not be providing your other allies enough sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nautilus in order to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Nautilus and Amumu synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Amumu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing alongside Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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